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Ontario Plants Propagation grows due to customers demand

"I'm sure it will not be our last expansion"

With another 2.6 hectare currently being built, the greenhouse of Ontario Plants Propagation grows to 15 ha propagation space and an additional 2.5 hectare of warehouse and…

Vacancies:

Tom Piini looks back on 40 years in the horticultural industry

"We've always designed our products around what a grower needs, not what we think he needs"

Tom Piini, founder of Micro Grow has been in the horticultural industry for over 40 years. Raised in the agricultural heartland of Salinas, CA his company Micro Grow designs…

Automated harvest and transport in new Japanese greenhouse

This year AgriD Inc started shipping cherry tomatoes cultivated at its newly built greenhouse in Inabe City, Japan. The 4.2 hectare greenhouse is one of the biggest in Japan.…

Scottish indoor agtech company announces Middle East partnership

Indoor agritech specialist IGS has announced a referral partnership agreement with International Real Estate Partners (IREP), the international facilities management firm. The…

prospering in the pandemic

Farmers delivering straight to homes

With restaurants shut and grocery stores posing a coronavirus risk, some Americans are ordering food directly from the farm - a trend small-scale producers hope will outlast…

Frontiers in Plant Science

The diversity dynamics of greenhouse tomato varieties

A lot of people think that domestication and plant breeding has led to genetic erosion, including loss of nutritional value, especially in tomato. A recent study looked at the…

CPMA’s Virtual New Product Showcase

Mucci Farms launches Paper Top Seal, expands Organic Cucumbers and more

Product innovations always play a key role at CPMA’s annual convention. Although the organization can’t hold its annual event that was scheduled for this week, it does have a…

Ronald van Vossen, Angus Soft Fruits Europe: "Limited raspberries and blueberries supply"

"Stable greenhouse strawberries market, but difficult season transition of Dutch greenhouse blackberry"

The sales of Dutch greenhouse strawberries are currently progressing very well, according to commercial director Ronald van Vossen of Angus Soft Fruits Europe from Ridderkerk,…

Spain

"Classical music favors the growth of plants by around 25%"

The only Pink tomatoes certified by Aragon's Committee for Ecological Agriculture in the province of Huesca are grown in the greenhouse of the Organic Garden of Casa Rural La…

Today's important COVID-19 news in the fresh produce sector

Corona update: EU demand for Ukrainian workers prompts easing of travel bans

In this edition of the coronavirus update, we see how the EU demand for Ukrainian workers is prompting eased travel bans. Turkey is launching a sprawling COVID-related probe,…

"New strawberry variety has passed the test"

For Italian growers, Rossetta, the new Premium Priced strawberry launched on the market in early 2020, has been successful in both agronomic and commercial terms. Harvesting…

Special Service Supply

May 14th 14:00 UTC+1

Webinar: Using additional data sources

The 30MHz platform ingests any kind of data source: crop level sensors, climate computers and manual data input. This way, growers can interact with ambient climate data…

MSU

US (MI): Blueberry breeder awarded USDA grant to improve fruit quality

Patrick Edger, assistant professor in the Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Horticulture, was awarded a four-year, $1.13 million grant, including matching funds,…

Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation

US (ND): Greenhouse engineering approved

The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corp. Board of Directors approved contracting for preliminary engineering work for a commercial greenhouse project at the Spiritwood Energy…
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What to consider when hiring inexperienced farm workers

Training employees takes time – particularly if they have no prior experience with farm tasks. However, human resource and safety experts say a deliberate, steady approach to…

COVID-19 impact assessment for EU fresh fruit & vegetable sector

Freshfel Europe has released its Impact Assessment of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the European fresh fruit and vegetable sector, including…

Lancaster University

Phytohormone profiles of lettuce and pepper grown aeroponically

Enhancing root-zone (RZ) dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) levels of plants grown aeroponically can increase biomass accumulation but may also alter phytohormone profiles in…

Food insecurity rates vary across States

USDA monitors the extent of food insecurity in U.S. households at the national and State levels through an annual U.S. Census Bureau survey. Food-insecure households are…

Climate-smart agriculture in the Northeast of Brazil

The purpose of a recent study is to determine if aquaponic systems can reduce food insecurity in the semi-arid regions of Brazil and generate income for the beneficiaries.…

Irina Kvyatkovskaya

Ministry of Agriculture:

Mixed food price dynamics in Russia

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture, which conducts regular monitoring of prices, issued a report in April stating that the price dynamics were mixed. The…

Reana Kovalcik

Farmers markets across the US face potential economic crisis from COVID-19

Across the US, farmers markets operators–the organizations and individuals who plan, coordinate, and run America’s farmers markets, are engaging in herculean efforts to…

City of Delta

CAN (BC): A new place for 500,000 seedlings

Century Industries has applied to the city of Delta to build a pair of 3,000 square foot propagation hoop houses on part of the Southlands the company lease from the city, a…

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

A new non-GMO method to edit plants with CRISPR

An NC State researcher has developed a new way to get CRISPR/Cas9 into plant cells without inserting foreign DNA. This allows for precise genetic deletions or replacements,…

Pluses and minuses for vegetable production in Waikato

The plan change that Waikato Regional Council has notified is an improvement on the 2016 proposal but will still affect the local industry’s ability to meet future demand for…

Funding plugs big future for Australia’s strawberry industry

A commercial nursery in the Southern Downs is paving the way for Australia’s strawberry industry after developing a new way to grow strawberries. Spring Creek…

Determining ion toxicity in cucumber under salinity stress

Cucumber, an important vegetable crop, is sensitive to NaCl. Its salinity tolerance can be improved by grafting onto pumpkin rootstocks, which restricts the uptake of Na+, but…

New dataset helps tomato growers reduce spread of bacterial canker

Bacterial canker of tomato is a disease that can lead to significant losses in greenhouse and field production systems. This disease is caused by the bacterial…

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EVFTA poses challenges to Vietnamese agricultural products

Since the EVTFA was approved, experts have been analysing the opportunities for Vietnam to penetrate deeper into the high-value foreign markets. However, the…

Spring 2020 United Fresh’s Fresh Insights for Foodservice report now available

The Spring 2020 issue of United Fresh’s Fresh Insights for Foodservice is now available. Special focus has been given to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic…

Gerold Grotelueschen

All India Motor Transport Congress experts:

From spoiled vegetables to high entry fees: Indian truckers are hassled unnecessarily

Despite Ministry of Home Affairs attempts to ensure the free movement of essentials and goods, in many Indian states the situation is worsening on the ground. Experts from the…

"Beautiful April weather has ensured good, consistent quality"

Landgard companies see great start to German open field lettuce season

Thanks to warm temperatures in the important growing month of April, Landgard member farms have had a good start into the season for German outdoor lettuce throughout the…

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